Eagles

No Guarantee There Will Be a Tush Push Vote This Offseason

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Sep 21st, 2025 · 11:49 AM EDT

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Adam Schefter reports that the Tush Push might not be going anywhere this offseason via ESPN.com:

Despite the anger about another year of the tush push and the debate it already has sparked this season, the controversial play might not be going anywhere.

League sources told ESPN that there are no assurances that the tush push issue will be brought up for conversation or a vote by the NFL this offseason.

One source told ESPN that, after the hotly contested conversation the play raised last offseason and the emotions it aroused, he believes the issue needs to be tabled for a year before it could be raised again.

Well this is good news for the Eagles. The NFL might not even have the opportunity to ban the Tush Push until 2027. They’ll need someone to step up and propose a ban now that the Green Bay Packers’ CEO, Mark Murphy, is retired. Remember many around the league believe the Packers never wanted to even propose a ban on the Tush Push, but the Packers hands were forced.

One thing proponents of the Tush Push don’t realize is how shitty Green Bay’s (re: the NFL’s) proposal was when they tried to ban it. The proposal they ended up voting on was this via Grant Gordon at NFL.com:

In the updated proposal, pushing or pulling a runner “in any direction at any time” or lifting him to his feet would be banned, which offers a broader stance harkening back to the ruleset from the league’s start through 2005, as noted by NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero. Therefore, if passed, the tush push would be banned along with any play in which a runner is pushed, pulled or lifted. Hence the proposal is now purposed as banning “assisting the runner.”

No pushing a runner or pulling a runner in any direction at any time might be harder to officiate than the Tush Push. This means things like pushing the pile would be outlawed, which is sacrilege. Still “influential voices” at NFL HQ are hellbent on banning the Brotherly Shove via Diana Russini at The Athletic (with ads):

In May, a proposal to outlaw the play came within two votes of passing. Influential voices inside 345 Park Ave. still believe that the tush push doesn’t belong. Multiple people who were in those rooms during league meetings came away convinced the ban could finally happen this offseason, and now that it looks a mess on television … this may be the end for the Brotherly Shove. 

The NFCCL trying to silence the play because it’s so one-sided. Hate to see it.